Vlad Barbalat
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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And we find ourselves well beyond that.
We are a hub of incredibly interesting relationships.
And we've tried to make sure that we approach that with all the care and diligence and thoughtfulness.
What I mentioned before, if I can identify a way we can be helpful to two of our partners or three of our partners and not be involved, we're always going to do that.
We're always going to think that way because we feel that these are...
valuable business relationships, friendships.
We're rooting for all our business partners.
We know that one way or the other, that's going to help our business in the long term.
That's exactly right.
I think we want to be one of those institutions, but I would say we want to be even more bold than that because there's a notion of a name being on the capital roster that allows others to come in.
That's an asset you have as that type of LP, but we want to be much more than that.
We want to sustain that, maintain that, but we also want to
be known for our creativity to structure solutions, for our creativity and willingness to take risks that some of those institutions with that halo of a brand just don't do, not set up to do.
That's not meant to be a negative.
In certain cases, that's all that you need.
In the case of, let's say, the venture ecosystem, which you're so familiar with, we're not going to try to replicate that outside of
our organization that's where you're competing truly with other capital to get on the capital roster in other places that's just not the game the game is are you creative are you quick can you take certain risks that others just don't even think about the game's different across different types of exposures this environment's so interesting because it feels as though
I love history.
We talked about this before.
And so I'm particularly tempted to engage in these things.
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